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> Sifr is also a valid word both in Farsi, I think That is the root of 'cipher'; meaning zero/empty/nothingness.
by OJFord 7mo ago
> Sifr is also a valid word both in Farsi, I think
That is the root of 'cipher'; meaning zero/empty/nothingness.
- srean 7mo agoIndeed and used cleverly in Casino Royale by naming Le Chiffre that way. I knew 'sifr' was an Arabic word and only today I came to know that it works in Farsi too. The double pun/irony is that the John Sipher's surname is related to the topic of cryptography and that the etymological roots is Middle-Eastern.
- OJFord 7mo agoAlso Hindi, Urdu, and no doubt others if we're drawing lines :) – there's an awful lot of overlap/loanwords.